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Ripplin

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#224470
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***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
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AHH! SPOILERS! RUN!

Nah, that's ok. I hadn't thought about where the sabers hit, really. I figured they just sort of locked together and made one big slice downwards, but I'm going to look at that more closely now. I suppose thousands of other people have thought about it, too, and I was blissfully unaware.
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#224448
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***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Just a couple of updates, just to keep you all informed, and, if I'm honest, because I like seeing my thread on the front page

Nothing wrong with a little self-promotion!

Anyway, I'm intrigued by the picture you added and what your tweaking could possibly mean. Your additions have been quality ones (even something simple as "Luke" saying "yeah," which added to the scene). Glad to hear from you and that the project is still going strong.
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#218687
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What scene in the (O-)OT do you hate/dislike the most?
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Heh, Star Wars vs. Star Trek... That one can take so many different directions (I usually hear lots of useless banter about the power of weapons in each universe).

I've always thought it would be cool to have a scene in TNG where Data says something about an unidentified vessel on long-range sensors, then Picard says to put it onscreen and magnify the image, and lo and behold, it's a Super Star Destroyer!
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#216815
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My new "toy"
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My mother and her brother were looking through some old things at my grandmother's house and decided to open an old safe that my grandfather had (he died five years ago). There were some guns in it (which my uncle took), along with this, which my mother took for me (with my grandmother's blessing):

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/machete.jpg

It's a 19.5 inch long machete. I'd like to get it sharpened and cleaned. The edge is slightly curled at some points, so he obviously used it for something. He may have used it when they cleared a section at the back of the yard to put in horseshoe pits a long time ago.

Size comparison with a butter knife:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/machetebutter.jpg
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#216813
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Photography submit your pics!!!!!
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I'm not really much of a photographer, due to lack of skill and lack of good equipment, but this one turned out very well:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/Gingerhappy.jpg

Here are a few other fun pics:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/squirrelfeederlookclose.jpg
(it's inside a bird feeder I had attached to the kitchen window)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/squirrelstretch1.jpg
(it's, um...sunbathing? They actually do this a lot!)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/Linkx5.jpg
(shot through the glass in the front door of my house)

And here's an unusual one my brother took a few years ago:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/crazygoose.jpg
(no idea why it turned out that way, but it sure is unique!)
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#215862
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What scene in the (O-)OT do you hate/dislike the most?
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Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Why was the Greedo scene in there at all if there was going to be a Jabba scene ten seconds later?

Yeah, they could have added a line for Greedo so he says something like "oh, Jabba's over at your ship, by the way." And as someone else pointed out, it's better not having that scene in there at all, as it shows the Falcon (not a lot of it, but still) and that kinda spoils Luke's reaction to seeing it later on a bit. We see that dirty old "piece of junk" the same time he does without any hints of it before, and that's kinda nice.

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#215452
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What scene in the (O-)OT do you hate/dislike the most?
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I feel the same with the Ewoks. They were never my favorite, and I like them less now than when I did as a child, but they're ok. They spawned a good cartoon and two fun movies, after all. Of all the kid-friendly additions to the movies, they're one of the least "offensive," I'd say. And though it was goofy, I still love the scene where the Ewok (Paploo?) steals the speeder bike!
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#214586
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Lucasfilm lunch hour
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Good points, Invader. I've said similar things myself about how he won't stop tinkering with them until the day he dies. That's just the way it is because he's such a perfectionist. But changes that are viewed as beautiful to one person may seem ugly or just plain unnecessary to others.

The comment about them releasing an ultimate edition after he dies could very well happen (even if he puts a "don't you dare do what I think you'll do!" clause in his will?). It happened with the anime "Metropolis." The creator, Osamu Tezuka, said he never wanted that comic series made into a movie, but after he died, they did it. And it was wonderful! But then the guys that did it joked (perhaps half joked) that now Tezuka's ghost will haunt them.